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Most of the current psychedelic renaissance is clinical — depression, PTSD, addiction. But the older question, whether these compounds give epistemic access to something, has been quietly dropped. Curt's guests often treat them as data points about the structure of mind, which is a much stronger and stranger claim.

Curt treats the long-form conversation as a way of doing philosophy rather than just reporting on it — putting rival ontologies (Hoffman's conscious realism, Kastrup's analytic idealism, Carroll's poetic naturalism) into the same room and letting them collide. Worth exploring whether the interview format produces knowledge that papers and journals structurally cannot.